How does your DC store meds @ college?

[Anonymous]

DC will have some meds and asked for a safe. Now out of pocket for 48 hours but want to order in order that it arrives in time. I'm thinking combo lock, but the best sizes are key ones. Still go with the combo?

Love any insights here from parents with DCs who have used safes. TIA.

[Anonymous]

If your kid's meds are ADHD meds, then I would assume that the key would be lost and go with the combo.

My kid kept his meds in his toiletry bag and took them when he went to brush his teeth in the communal bathroom in the morning. If he had to take them out of a safe, he would not remembered to take them.

[Anonymous]

Personal safe

[Anonymous]

DD kept her ADHD drugs in a safe. It had a combo lock.

[Anonymous]

Meds are in a safe with a combo lock. They use a pillbox which is refilled each Sunday night from the med bottles in the safe. They have made a routine of it.

[Anonymous]

Mine has an injectible pen that needs to be refrigerated. School does not provide or rent fridges so she bought a very small mini fridge for the room - size that would hold a few sodas.

[Anonymous]

Make the safe big enough that it's hard to move around or hide. Someone would absolutely steal the plastic one we have and bash it to pieces to get meds.

[Anonymous]

My DC will have a drawer that can be padlocked, but I wanted to get a small safe in case he doesn't want to do that. The problem is that a small "box" safe (like a gun safe) may be relatively secure, but they're easy enough for someone to just walk away with.

It seems to me that the goal, just like security at your house, is to slow the thief down and make stealing something awkward and noisy, so they move on to someone else, so I ordered this thing. It's not indestructible, but the cable can be looped around something solid and you'd need a heavy duty tool to cut it, I think. We'll see how it goes.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017ROYKWK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC will have a drawer that can be padlocked, but I wanted to get a small safe in case he doesn't want to do that. The problem is that a small "box" safe (like a gun safe) may be relatively secure, but they're easy enough for someone to just walk away with.

It seems to me that the goal, just like security at your house, is to slow the thief down and make stealing something awkward and noisy, so they move on to someone else, so I ordered this thing. It's not indestructible, but the cable can be looped around something solid and you'd need a heavy duty tool to cut it, I think. We'll see how it goes.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017ROYKWK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

Just bought a combo lock box, but this does have me thinking. We will see how it goes and if we need to pivot.

The one potential drawback about your suggestion is that it will need to be locked to something to be of use and that will probaby require it to be in plain sight. Can't imagine my DC is going to want to answer questions or overhear roommates tell someone what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC will have a drawer that can be padlocked, but I wanted to get a small safe in case he doesn't want to do that. The problem is that a small "box" safe (like a gun safe) may be relatively secure, but they're easy enough for someone to just walk away with.

It seems to me that the goal, just like security at your house, is to slow the thief down and make stealing something awkward and noisy, so they move on to someone else, so I ordered this thing. It's not indestructible, but the cable can be looped around something solid and you'd need a heavy duty tool to cut it, I think. We'll see how it goes.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017ROYKWK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

You can get one with a locking wire and lock it to the bed frame or closet rail.

https://www.staples.com/Sentry-Safe-05-Cubic-Ft-Compact-Safe/product_337295?cid=PS:GS:SBDLA:OS&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3MmQ_vHG-QIVT-zjBx2augnSEAQYDCABEgLGXvD_BwE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC will have a drawer that can be padlocked, but I wanted to get a small safe in case he doesn't want to do that. The problem is that a small "box" safe (like a gun safe) may be relatively secure, but they're easy enough for someone to just walk away with.

It seems to me that the goal, just like security at your house, is to slow the thief down and make stealing something awkward and noisy, so they move on to someone else, so I ordered this thing. It's not indestructible, but the cable can be looped around something solid and you'd need a heavy duty tool to cut it, I think. We'll see how it goes.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017ROYKWK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

You can get one with a locking wire and lock it to the bed frame or closet rail.

https://www.staples.com/Sentry-Safe-05-Cubic-Ft-Compact-Safe/product_337295?cid=PS:GS:SBDLA:OS&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3MmQ_vHG-QIVT-zjBx2augnSEAQYDCABEgLGXvD_BwE

We got a bigger one with a wire tether that was large enough to secure a laptop inside as well.

[Anonymous]

My son keeps his ADHD meds in his desk drawer.
No safe, no lock. Not an issue at an OOS flagship

[Anonymous]

We bought this thing and modified it.

https://www.amazon.com/ECR4Kids-Lock-Portable-Under-Bed-Personal/dp/B005JCZI5G

We drilled a hole through top and bottom near the front to add a larger keyed lock.

We drilled another hole through it to run the most secure bicycle chain through it and attached it under kid's bed.

The week my kid started college someone in one of the dorms was busted selling the same medicine. I had heard horror stories about thefts from dorms. The item is also large enough to store documents so anything with their ss#, any extra credit cards etc went in there. Kid fortunately had his own room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son keeps his ADHD meds in his desk drawer.
No safe, no lock. Not an issue at an OOS flagship

Bull. Kid is lucky. It depends a lot upon roommates, friends, and random stuff.

[Anonymous]

First order of business, if no one knows a kid is taking them, no one will try to steal them. Most people don’t go digging through their roommates stuff and most lock the room when they leave, so it shouldn’t be a big issue.